It "extends" the already existing workaround for Dell systems with another CIM element always reporting "not connected" as well.
To be more specific, the CIM element System Board 1 LCD Cable Pres 0: Connected was exiting with return code 12 on a Dell PowerEdge R720 system.

Special thanks to Ricardo Pardini for reporting the issue and making a lot of tests for me.

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The plugin is very CPU intensive, not that it makes a lot of calculations, but it takes some time to fetch all information from the ESX hosts. You might have to adapt the check_interval setting for this check. It doesn't make sense to check the status of a hardware every 3-5mins anyway.

Steven from wrote on May 6th, 2013:

Hello!
First of all thank you for your script. It's a very good work and is very important for my ESXi servers.
I want to ask you only one question: